New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, we felt sure we were going to die. But this made us stop trusting in ourselves and start trusting God, who raises the dead to life.

New American Bible
Indeed, we had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

sentence.

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. . . .

Job 40:14 Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.

Psalm 22:29 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

Psalm 44:5-7 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob. . . .

Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.

Jeremiah 9:23,24 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches: . . .

Jeremiah 17:5-7 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 33:13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.

Luke 18:9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

in God.

2 Corinthians 4:13,14 But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak also: . . .

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. . . .

Romans 4:17-25 (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. . . .

Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.